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The Center Square

U.S. right-leaning

The Center Square is a free wire service owned by the Franklin News Foundation, a conservative nonprofit that is funded heavily through right-leaning foundations and donor networks. Its coverage focuses on state and local government and consistently emphasizes limited-government, fiscally conservative angles. Under the second Trump term, its reporting has generally aligned with administration priorities on taxes, regulation, immigration, and spending.

Owned byFranklin News Foundation (formerly the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity), a nonprofit organization; John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, chairs its board

LeaningU.S. right-leaning

On the administrationbroadly supportive

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4.2average bias score across 6 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

4 NASCAR Cup Series Returns to North Wilkesboro Speedway After State and Federal Money Helped Rebuild the Track
4 NC State Audit: 78% of Pre-1983 Landfill Sites Never Investigated for Contamination
6 Courts in Four States Weigh Challenges to New Congressional Maps as Mid-Decade Redistricting Spreads
4 North Carolina House Passes Election Law Bill Expanding Auditor Role; Senate Action Uncertain
3 North Carolina House Elections Bill HB 958 Clears Rules Committee, Heads to Floor Vote Amid Bipartisan Opposition
4 North Carolina House Overrides Four Stein Vetoes; Three DEI and Immigration Bills Become Law